The Seventh Trumpet is at once an Intelligence Report
and a Spiritual
Commentary upon the Events and Affairs of our Times.It is intended
to be an ongoing Educational Curriculum based on the subterranean
streams of economic, social, political, spiritual and historical facts,
little known to the general population.

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"And
if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then
ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before
the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies." - Num.
10:9

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Part 3

BACKING OUT OF BABYLON

In
This Issue:

THE
FIRST U.S. PAPER DOLLARSWHAT
BECAME OF THE GOLD STORED IN THE TWIN TOWERS ?WHY
IS THE NUMBER 911 THE CHOICE OF EXTREMISTS ?NEVADE
vs. THE FEDERAL RESERVEALTERNATIVE
MONEY HAS REDEEMING VALUEITHACA
HOURSTHE
POWER TO TAX IS THE POWER TO DESTROYTOM
DELAY CALLS FOR FAIR TAX TO REPLACE IRS

In
our two previous newsletters, we explored the possibilities of exchanging
the forms of slavery created by ‘contracts’ with the ‘State’ by returning
to a Biblical view of man and his historical relationships with family and
government.

If
we do not cherish our birthright - if we do not understand who we are and
recall our glorious heritage - we will not be able to escape the chains
which have been forged for our slavery.

In
this Issue, we will examine two vital areas, where we have been and still
are being separated from our wealth through deception and brainwashing.

James
Madison, one of our early Presidents, warned, "History
records that the money-changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue,
deceit, and violent plans possible to maintain their control over governments
by controlling money, and its issuance."

THE
FIRST U.S. PAPER DOLLARS

The
very first U.S. paper dollars were voted into existence on June 22, 1775,
to pay for the War for Independence.

The
amount -- two million, pegged against Spanish milled dollars -- about a
fifth of all the hard money in North America at the time. This paper currency
was to be redeemed in stages.

Although victory would eventually bring the 13 colonies their independence,
in those early years of paper money, the war still had no end in sight.

The
allied colonies were confused as to ways and means. We had no flag or president.
We were not

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properly
a nation. We faced the best army in the world. Gold and silver were hard
to come by; it was the first time in history that a people had gone to war
without the money to pay for it.!

Robert
Morris patterned America's 1st privately owned Central Bank, The BANK of
NORTH AMERICA, closely after the Bank of England and obtained a charter
from Congress in 1781 to issue promises-to-pay in the amount of actual deposits.

The
Bank produced inflated promises-to-pay that generated little interest, converted
to a commercial banking facility and ceased central banking functions by
1783.

In
1791 Congress gave The First Bank of the United States, America's 2nd privately
owned Central Bank, a 20-year charter to loan money into circulation.

Unnamed foreign investors, including the House of Rothschild, shaped the
Bank's operating philosophy. The federal government borrowed into circulation
$6.2 million the first five years of the Bank’s existence.

Wholesale prices rose 72% and inflation confiscated
people’s wealth. The First Bank of the United States refused to redeem
much of the money created by America's independent banks.

Jefferson-led
Republicans opposed The First Bank's twenty-year tenure. In 1811 by a single
vote Congress discontinued The First Bank.

However
by 1812, The Second Bank of the United States, America's 3rd privately owned
Central Bank, initiated operations and began to contract the economy in
1818 by curtailing the issue of new promises-to-pay and by calling in old
promises-to-pay.

During
the pre-Napoleonic era, 1730-1796, Britain effectively adhered to the gold
standard but during the Napoleonic war period of 1797-1820, she abandoned
the gold standard.

However,
in the United States, gold and silver remained as the backing for our currency,
especially during the classical gold standard period, 1821-1913. Then President
Roosevelt audaciously seized as much of our gold, as could be found in safe-deposit
boxes.

It was handed over to International Bankers and used to finance the Russian
Revolution and much of World War I. Subsequently, it became illegal for
Americans to own gold for a number of years! But thankfully, today, it is
again legal to own gold but now we are faced with another question.

WHAT
BECAME OF THE GOLD STORED IN THE TWIN TOWERS ?

Prior
to September 11, 2001, there was a sizeable deposit of gold in the underground
vaults of the Twin Towers, which formed part of the United States gold reserves.

Now,
it is possible that the gold could have been removed to the Federal Reserve
bank in New York, prior to the attack, which brought down the Twin Towers,
but this scenario presupposes a prior knowledge on the part of Treasury
officials, of the impending attack.

We all know that the debris of the Twin Towers was removed - clear down
to ‘ground zero’. Was any gold discovered? I don’t think so. This would
be a good question to put to your Congressmen and Senators.

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Try
as I might, I still haven’t been able to learn what happened to the gold.

And
with the ‘reclassification’ of the gold supposedly held at Fort Knox, one
begins to wonder.

Considering that there hasn’t been an audit of our gold reserves for several
years, one might even get a little nervous.

WHY
IS THE NUMBER 911 THE CHOICE OF EXTREMISTS ?

Why
is this number 9-11 the choice of extremists?

Most American have forgotten another terrorist attack
made upon the White House at 2300 hrs on September 11, 1994 by Frank Eugene
Corder who crashed his Cessna into the White House!

Coincidence?
As I have devoted considerable space to this mystery in another article,

(See
http//www.theseventhtrumpet.net/)
Let’s return to original topic - DECEPTION. I believe the American people
are waking up to our situation, thanks in part to the Internet.

Unfortunately,
most people think we will always be able to use the internet to voice our
concerns, but the fact is, many countries have closed down web sites, including
England and Australia. Please print this stuff out, so you will have hard
copies to work with, if need be.

NEVADA
vs. THE FEDERAL RESERVE

By
Kelly Patricia O Meara in Insight Magazine

There
currently are 60 different forms of currency in circulation throughout the
United States,
and the reasons for issuing this alternative money are as numerous as the
currencies themselves.

While many have begun using new forms of currency to keep the money within
their community, there are others, such as Bernard von NotHaus, founder
of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve, who
are intent on using it to publicize the populist claim that the Federal
Reserve is illegitimate.

Now
it appears that even some states are beginning to question whether the Fed
is constitutional.

A bill recently submitted to the Nevada Assembly Committee
on Constitutional Amendments directs the issuance of Nevada silver coins.

The act, now under consideration, states in part that: the purported delegation
by the Congress of the power to issue money to the Federal Reserve Bank,
a privately owned corporation, is a violation of the terms of the U.S.
Constitution;

the
failure of the Congress to discharge its obligations to issue all the money
pursuant to Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution absolves the state
of Nevada from its constitutional obligation not to issue money;

the state of Nevada shall issue into circulation coins of the state of Nevada
in the amount of $50 million.

The
coins must contain 1 ounce of fine silver, must be alloyed to 90 percent
fineness and must bear the Great Seal of the state of Nevada on one side
and the

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words,
"Contains One Troy Ounce Fine Silver," "Twenty Dollars," "Nevada Legal Tender"
and the year of issue on the other side. The coins so issued are legal
tender for all debts, public and private, in Nevada.

If the Nevada Legislature determines that the U.S. Congress is fulfilling
its constitutional obligation to issue money by requiring the Federal Reserve
"to retire its circulating notes and causing the issuance of sufficient
notes of the United States and other currency to meet the needs of the commerce
of the United States and Nevada, the State Treasurer shall retire the coins
authorized by this section as they are received into the State Treasury."

Nevada is the first of the 50 states to consider taking such steps against
the Federal Reserve, and one has to wonder which, if any state, will be
next.

At
a minimum, it's not good news for a Federal Reserve that has made printing
money and manipulating the amount of money and credit in circulation into
an art form, especially on its 90th anniversary.

ALTERNATIVE
MONEY HAS REDEEMING VALUE

More
than $3 million worth of them are in circulation throughout the United States,
with an estimated 30,000 people using them in place of the dollar at an
unknown, yet apparently increasing, number of business establishments.
No, they aren't Disney Dollars, but the principles are similar to those
of mouse money and, surprisingly, to Federal Reserve notes.

Those
who use them claim that they are the "real" money, backed by something of
value. They mean to make a statement about their lack of faith in the greenback,
the world's premier currency.

Five years ago economist and retired mint master of the Royal Hawaiian Mint
Bernard von NotHaus began the National Organization for the Repeal of the
Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code (NORFED) and started providing
an alternative to the Federal Reserve notes commonly called dollars.

"We
have an obligation - a moral obligation - to tell people about the history
and consequences of past fiat currencies and to draw an analogy of what
is going on today in this country," von NotHaus tells Insight.

Von
NotHaus contends that the Federal Reserve is not a "federal" agency at all
but a cabal of private and international banks that does not answer to the
U.S. government. He says it is "shadowed in deceptive origins and fraudulent
policies."

According to NORFED literature: "Hundreds of authors and commentators have
gathered an impressive body of facts and documentation to show how the Constitution
of the United States was circumvented to allow the central bankers control
over our money. ...

These
students of the nation's monetary system aren't kooks - they're professors,
political scientists, judges, senators and even presidents. It is only
a matter of time before the truth

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is
revealed that the Federal Reserve is nothing more than a national scam that
has ripped off the American people and enslaved them with perpetual debt."

That is, of course, one view going back to the scrap between Alexander Hamilton
and Andrew Jackson, and it is a minority opinion. But it is one around
which hard-money advocates have been circling their wagons for nearly two
centuries.

Now
and then someone such as von NotHaus will come along and go so far as to
produce his own private money.

Von NotHaus isn't alone in his contempt for the Federal Reserve, nor is
his currency the first of its kind.

Currently
there are approximately 60 different forms of private currency in circulation
throughout the United States, most notably the "Ithaca HOURS."

ITHACA
HOURS

Ithaca
HOURS are issued by a local community organization and are as valid as Fed
notes for payment or settling debts among consenting parties.

Five
denominations of Ithaca HOURS have been issued, one Ithaca HOUR being regarded
as equal to one hour of basic labor, or $10. The lowest denomination is
one-eighth of an Ithaca HOUR, which is equal to one-eighth of an hour of
basic labor, or $1.25. Nearly $85,000 worth of Ithaca HOURS have been
issued, with an estimated transaction value of several million dollars added
and kept within the local community.

Unlike the Ithaca HOURS, which are used within a specific
community, or the Disney Dollar, which must be used exclusively within Disney
facilities, the von NotHaus currency is accepted by businesses nationally
and internationally and is exchanged in denominations that are one-to-one
with Federal Reserve notes.

Von NotHaus' currency comes in units of $1, $5 and $10 silver, and a $500
gold note, all redeemable in precious metal.

Everything about NORFED's American Liberty Currency (ALC) is perfectly legal
and is explained on the organization's Website www.libertydollar.org.

Claudia
Dickens, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
tells Insight: "Any merchant who wants to accept [the ALC] can do so as
long as the people circulating it do not indicate that it is backed by the
federal government. Where private currency is made for use, and businesses
accept it knowing this, it is perfectly legal."

What
sets the ALC apart from other alternative currencies, says von NotHaus,
is that "it is 100 percent backed and redeemable in gold and silver," which
is what this nation's founders constitutionally mandated for the official
currency.

"We
don't sell currency," explains von NotHaus, "we exchange it. We have the
$10 silver base, which means that while silver is under $10 an ounce, every
liberty dollar is backed up by one-tenth of an ounce of silver. That ounce
of silver is in the warehouse before the certificate is issued. NORFED
doesn't issue the

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certificate;
we distribute the currency. The warehouse receipt, which is a legal binding
contract as defined by the Uniform Commercial Code, actually is issued by
the warehouseman whose signature is on the back of every certificate.

"With the Liberty Dollars what people do is currency exchanges - they aren't
purchasing money.

There
is no sales tax on currency exchanges, and this currency is designed specifically
to function on a one-to-one basis with Federal Reserve notes, regardless
of where the price of silver may go.

That's why we call this 'America's inflation-proof
currency.' It protects from the inflation of the Federal Reserve notes."

So how does the ALC work? According to von NotHaus: "More likely than not,
a merchant will accept the currency from you and do the exact same thing
they do with Federal Reserve notes - they would exchange it with another
customer.

If
the customer doesn't want the ALC then the merchant makes change in Federal
Reserve notes." Von NotHaus continues: "If the people or merchants who
have accepted the ALC don't want it, they can turn it in for silver and
they will get exactly what is specified in the terms on the back of the
certificate, or they can get Federal Reserve notes.

That there are some who may not want the currency isn't surprising. After
all, not every merchant accepts American Express. The fact remains that
this currency has real value because it is redeemable in silver or gold
and the Federal Reserve notes are not."

While all of this sounds like utopia to advocates of hard money, not everyone
is convinced of its practicality.

Richard
Rahn, a senior fellow of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, an adjunct
scholar of the Washington-based Cato Institute and author of ‘The End
of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy’, tells Insight’: "There
are people out there experimenting with alternative forms of money, and
they all hope that people will start using this money.

Back
during the Carter administration when inflation was very high you could
make the case for alternative or gold money, but for
the last 20 years or so inflation has been about 2 or 3 percent.

Over time, the value of the dollar erodes, but if you put your dollars into
say CDs [certificates of deposit] or Treasury bills, you can earn at least
a little interest."

The problem with these schemes, continues Rahn, "is
that the transaction costs going into and out of them are pretty substantial
and there are holding costs as well.

They [alternative money and private currencies] may make sense in places
where you have high rates of inflation. For example, Argentina would have
been better off in gold money.

There
are certain advantages in the international arena, but nobody has really
worked the thing to get the transaction costs down far enough to be really
useful.

And
the reality is that for the last 30 years the prices of both silver and
gold have steadily fallen." [Not true today. J.B.]

Rohn
continues, "While private money is available, it is not a growing trend.
People started talking about it in the 1970s because there was very high
inflation.

There
were a lot of private currencies and coinages then and there were many legislative
changes making it legal, but there hasn't yet been a truly successful alternative
currency. Maybe at

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some
point people will figure out how to do it effectively. But if such monies
ever became a competitive threat to the dollar, the government would probably
react the way it normally does and make it illegal."

Von NotHaus argues that using the ALC isn't about
investing in commodities. "Remember," he says, "the spot price of silver
in New York is for a 5,000-ounce ingot. One-ounce silver pieces [U.S.
Mint] are sold for spot plus $2 to $4. So at $5 silver, one-ounce pieces
run $7 to $9, which is about the same as the $10 certificate.

The price of the certificates includes not only the market value of the
underlying silver, but also the minting, storage, insurance, printing and
distribution. Paying $10 or less for $5 in silver is very reasonable given
the costs involved in producing the currency, and don't forget that it's
far better than the Federal Reserve notes [dollars]
whose raw materials [ink and paper] are worth about 3.5 cents."

There is no telling how successful the ALC will become, but few who are
watching it doubt that its popularity is based on the faith of the people
using it, very much like Federal Reserve notes.

To understand the premise behind the desire of von NotHaus and others to
go to silver- and gold-backed currencies, one need only compare an ALC certificate
with a Federal Reserve note. One is redeemable in silver, and the other
is not redeemable.

Kelly Patricia O'Meara is an investigative reporter for Insight magazine.

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THE
POWER TO TAX IS THE POWER TO DESTROY

In
1999, the average American family spent more per capita on taxes ($10,298)
than on food ($2,693), clothing ($1,404), and shelter ($5,833) combined.
Where did this money go?

In
this series of articles, we have been examining the various ‘contracts’
that bind us to the ‘State’.

Today,
we are seeing our hard-earned money being taken from us by tax agents in
various level of government. One does not need to be a rocket scientist
to realize that much of this money is going to various political and educational
organizations, ethnic groups, large corporations, etc. in the form of welfare.

Perhaps
we need to begin withholding out taxes, until politicians come to realize
whose money they are spending.

The
current U.S. military budget is $396 billion, and it's expanding rapidly.
That's roughly $5000 for every household in the U.S. But what's more relevant
is how it stacks up relative to other countries.

The
fact is, it's significantly more than the combined budgets of every other
country in the world, which is even more bizarre when you consider that
the U.S. has only 4% of the world's population.

Israel,
which is actually surrounded by enemy states while simultaneously fighting
a guerrilla war within its borders, only spends $9 billion.

France
and Britain, which have close historical connections to scores of ex-colonies
who are a constant tribulation (e.g., the Ivory Coast), together only
spend a fraction of the US budget.

Where
does the money go?

I
don't think anybody has actually figured it out. But 75% of it would be
totally unnecessary if the U.S. government recalled the troops from well
over 100 countries around the world where they're antagonizing the natives.

The U.S. is, in effect, in an arms race against itself. And the problem
of having a powerful military is similar to that of having a big hammer:
pretty soon, everything starts looking like a nail.

Of
course, not all U.S. military spending goes directly to the U.S. military.

The
U.S. gave $1 billion in aid to Somalia before its disastrous "peace-keeping"
mission in 1991 - including $154 million in weapons.

It's estimated that the U.S. Government gave the Taliban and other Afghan
rebels about $3 billion in military aid to fight the Soviets. And you certainly
won't hear Bush admitting that in 2001 alone, before the 911 attacks made
the Afghans the Devil of the Month, the U.S. government gave the Afghan
regime $125 million in aid.

I haven't seen the numbers for the amount of support to Saddam while Iraq
fought the Iranians during the 80s. But the Iranians were armed almost
exclusively with American weapons left over from the Shah's regime. It
might be called "the boomerang effect.

In
1977, the Dept. of Energy budget $19 billion, which has never produced a
barrel of oil.

Frank
Chodorov stated: "If the State has a prior right
to the products of one’s labor, his right to existence is qualified."

Once income taxes were imposed on the citizen, the level of earnings he
was allowed to keep became dependent on the goodwill of the government;
and how much he was allowed to keep varied with the size of the government
jackboot."

The
famous French economist and pamphleteer Frederic Bastiat (1801–1850) wrote
of the French Government saying: "If you make of the law the palladium
of the freedom and the property rights of all citizens, and if it is nothing
but the organization of their individual rights to legitimate self-defense,
you will establish on a just foundation a rational, simple, economical government,
understood by all, loved by all, useful to all, supported by all, entrusted
with a perfectly definite and very limited responsibility, and endowed with
an unshakable solidarity.

If, on the contrary, you make of the law an instrument of plunder for the
benefit of particular individuals or classes, first everyone will try to
make the law; then everyone will try to make it for his own profit."
- Selected Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat, pages
238 and 239.

"The
founding fathers, in an act of the Continental Congress in 1774, said, 'If
money is wanted by rulers who have in any manner oppressed the people, [the
people] may retain [their money] until their grievances are redressed, and
thus peaceably procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or
disturbing the public tranquility,'" Schulz said in a speech
Nov. 14 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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"This
very American right of redress of grievances before taxes is deeply embedded
in our law," he said. "The founding fathers could hardly have used words
more clear when they declared, 'The people … may
retain [their money] until their grievances are [remedied].' "

TOM
DELAY CALLS FOR FAIR TAX TO REPLACE IRS

Wes
Vernon, NewsMax.com
Wednesday, April 16, 2003

WASHINGTON
– House Majority Leader Tom DeLay wants to get the IRS off the backs of
American taxpayers.

By
signing on to the Fair Tax Bill, H.R. 25, the Texan has signaled to his
troops that abolishing the IRS once and for all is the best way of dealing
with oppressive taxation, a confusing convoluted tax code, and an oppressive
bureaucracy that enforces the care and feeding of the federal bureaucracy.

The
House leader reinforces his determination to get some relief for overtaxed
Americans by backing the Fair Tax movement. This is a tax that would be
paid on what you consume.

Here’s
what the legislation would do:

1.
Individuals would not file. Businesses would need to deal only with sales
tax returns.

2.
Millions of Americans who hire tax accountants to navigate the 4,000-plus
pages of the tax code each year would be spared the expense.

3.
No more taxes on wages, savings and investments. That alone would increase
productivity and result in significant economic growth.

4.
As a consumption tax, the amount you pay in taxes would depend on your lifestyle.
The more you spend the more you pay, and vice versa. All taxes would be
rebated up to the poverty level.

5.
Foreign companies would be forced to deal on even
terms with American companies for the first time in 80 years. Under
the current code, U.S. exports bear an unfair burden, with no adjustment
to account for the tax advantages of imports.

"You’re
going to have more honest management," and less reliance on tax shelters,
Fair Tax activist George Gettemuller told NewsMax.com. Management "is
going to have to be honest, and they’re going to have to be long-term in
their projections. And you’re going to see that our manufacturing will
come back home."

That
would be "Europe’s worst nightmare" because, according to Gettemuller,
we will be "so damned efficient." We’ll sell our goods on the
market at considerably less than the competing products of high-tax double-digit
economies in Europe, "and they’re going to

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have
to up the tax on" their own products.

It
would help resolve our problematic balance of payments.

"Our
balance of payments stinks," observed the retired stockbroker, who
lives in Florida.

"And
what’s going to happen is your stock market will go up. Everybody will
feel a lot better. I mean this will make the stock market go and make real
value," in his opinion.

Full
employment and an end to Enron or Global Crossing-style scandals are among
the other benefits envisioned by supporters of Fair Tax.

This
movement is not something that was hatched in Washington. Very seldom is
the seat of power the birthplace of ideas that provide the average taxpayer
with a level playing field.

The
idea comes from the grassroots, with Americans for Fair Taxation (AFT) as
the guiding force. This Houston-based organization began primarily as a
research group that sought to determine what the American people wanted
in a tax system and what Americans believed was the best way to collect
revenue.

AFT
says extensive focus group studies led to the Fair Tax as its choice as
"the most reasonable and viable plan possible."

While
Capitol Hill putters around the edges, arguing over whether President Bush’s
tax-cut stimulus plan should be cut in half or merely by one-quarter, these
citizens are going right to the core of the problem: The IRS, whose job
it is to enforce a convoluted income tax code rooted in envy and class hatred.

The
worst thing that can happen to radical Marxists is for a rising tide to
"lift all boats," as Ronald Reagan long advocated. If they can’t
foment the class struggle, the hard leftists are out of business. They become
the proverbial emperor with no clothes.

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